Frames of Reference
Volume 1 Program 2
Alternate Voices

Alternate Voices includes works created by group or individual identities overlooked by the mass media and posits media as a potential tool of collective empowerment and personal exploration.


Meeting Ancestors
Vincent Carelli
22:00   1993
Vincent Carelli's Meeting Ancestors forms part of the Video in the Villages project, which equips indigenous communities in Brazil with video cameras: here the Waiãpa Indians travel to the Amazon to meet the Zo'é tribe, complete with camcorders and VCRs to document and share each other's tribal customs.


Comrades
Mitko Panov
1:46:00   2000
In Comrades, filmmaker Mitko Panov returns to his native homeland to track down a group of friends - captured in a 1981 photograph - who served together in the Yugoslavian Army; what he finds are elusive trails to these former friends now split apart by the war and ethnic and territorial divides they rarely considered twenty years ago.